The research also opens the door to new strategies that could help crop plants sidestep the unwanted, climate-driven influences on rubisco activase and the negative impacts on rubisco and photosynthesis.

UV radiation in the natural environment may harm biological organisms by damaging DNA, membranes and proteins, including the D1 protein of PSII and rubisco.

It is accepted that a protein like rubisco can not only have an enzymic function but can also act as a storage protein.